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Getty ImagesMaximiliano Blanco An irate driver assaulted a professional cyclist in Italy this week, sending him to the hospital with a head injury.Daniel Martinez, a Columbian rider with the EF Education First-Drapac pro team, was training in Tuscany on Tuesday morning when a driver passed and nearly struck him and two teammates. Martinez yelled at the driver, as cyclists tend to do when cars get a little too close for comfort. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below That’s when things took a violent turn. According to Martinez, the unidentified driver stopped, got out of his car, and proceeded to assault him and another teammate. “I was training in Italy and a car almost killed us,” Martinez, 21, told the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo. “We protested and he went crazy. He got out and attacked me. He punched me in the jaw and knocked me out. He broke another guy’s lip and then ran away.” The blow reportedly knocked Martinez unconscious and sent … [Read more...] about Angry Driver Punches Pro Cyclist, Sending Him to Hospital

Dive Brief: Community Health Systems will sell three Tennova Healthcare hospitals to West Tennessee Healthcare as the for-profit system moves forward with its divestiture plans. CHS hit its mark of 30 divestitures last year, netting $2 billion, and plans to continue selling facilities this year in an effort to reduce debt and focus on growth in its profitable markets. The deal with West Tennessee Healthcare will bring the CHS divestiture count in Tennessee, the company's home state, to four this year. Dive Insight: In January, CHS CEO Wayne Smith told investors that his goal is to have 100 hospitals in “significantly improved markets.” These three most recent divestments make five so far for the year following a separate divestiture in Tennessee in January and one in Louisiana in February. All five are expected to close in the second quarter. CHS recently brought on financial advisors to help restructure the company's $13.8 billion … [Read more...] about CHS to sell 3 Tennessee hospitals

Dive Brief: Geisinger and St. Luke's University Health Network said Tuesday they are planning to build an 80-bed acute care hospital that will include an emergency department and a "full range of specialties and services" provided by clinicians from both nonprofit systems. The two systems work together frequently, including an insurance collaboration and an upcoming partnership that will see Geisinger providing St. Luke's with emergency helicopter service. A groundbreaking on the three-story hospital is planned in spring, and the systems expect it will open late next year. Dive Insight: The hospital will be located in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill County, where both St. Luke's and Geisinger Health System have existing facilities. The hospital will be the first in Pennsylvania to be built and co-owned by two healthcare systems. "We know that many patients are leaving Schuylkill and Berks counties for hospital services," Geisinger CEO David … [Read more...] about Geisinger to build, co-own hospital with St. Luke’s

Dive Brief: Ascension Health has signed a letter of intent to sell St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT, to Hartford HealthCare. The deal, announced Monday, includes a 473-bed community teaching hospital, 76-bed psychiatric facility, large multispecialty provider group and St. Vincent’s Special Needs Services. It does not include St. Vincent’s College. Separately, Ascension has created a C-suite position to oversee health IT, Modern Healthcare reports. The as-yet-unnamed chief digital officer will start later this year. Dive Insight: Nonprofit Hartford is a fully integrated health system with six acute-care hospitals, a large physician group, physical therapy and rehabilitation network, regional home care system and Connecticut’s most extensive behavioral heath network. Ascension said St. Vincent’s will continue to adhere to Catholic traditions under Hartford ownership. Completion of the sale is pending regulatory approvals. The deal comes as … [Read more...] about Ascension selling Connecticut hospital to Hartford HealthCare

The damage from a freezer malfunction at a fertility clinic near Cleveland on March 4 is far is worse than initially expected, according to CBS News. In a letter to patients, University Hospitals in Cleveland explained that more than 4,000 embryos and eggs were destroyed, CBS News reports. (Initial reports underestimated that number by about half.) About 1,000 patients were affected. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The hospital reported that the remote alarm system designed to alert hospital employees to temperature changes in the freezer had been turned off. They're currently investigating the situation, though they do not believe the alarm was disengaged intentionally, according to CBS News. At the time of the incident, Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital, said she suspected the error occurred sometime on Saturday afternoon, after staff had all left for the day, Cleveland.com reported. After the malfunction … [Read more...] about Far More Eggs And Embryos Were Lost In UH Hospitals Fertility Clinic Failure Than Expected